The 1995 Genealogy Annual

The 1995 Genealogy Annual
Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780842026611

The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main sections. FAMILY HISTORIES-cites American and international single and multifamily genealogies, listed alphabetically by major surnames included in each book. GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS-includes reference and how-to books for doing research on specific record groups or areas of the U.S. or the world. GENEALOGICAL SOURCES BY STATE-consists of entries for genealogical data, organized alphabetically by state and then by city or county. The Genealogy Annual, the core reference book of published local histories and genealogies, makes finding the latest information easy. Because the information is compiled annually, it is always up to date. No other book offers as many citations as The Genealogy Annual; all works are included. You can be assured that fees were not required to be listed.

Lancaster County, Virginia Deed Book, 1706-1710

Lancaster County, Virginia Deed Book, 1706-1710
Author: Ruth Sparacio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781680345131

This volume contains entries from Lancaster County, Virginia, Deeds &c. No. 9, 1701-1715, beginning on page 206 and ending on page 411 for courts held 3 January 1706 through 31 October 1710. Researching deed books is a must when researching your family history. County deed books contain records of land transactions, bills of sale, powers of attorney, mortgages and leases, slave manumissions, and sometimes marriage contracts. A full-name and place index adds to the value of this work. (?), 2022, 81/2x11, paper, index, 130 pp

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Author: Kathleen M. Brown
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807838292

Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption. Brown's analysis extends through Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony's white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century. She demonstrates that, despite elite planters' dominance, wives, children, free people of color, and enslaved men and women continued to influence the meaning of race and class in colonial Virginia.

The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia

The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia
Author: Lonnie H. Lee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-06-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1978714866

The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia is the history of a Huguenot emigrant community established in eight counties along the Rappahannock River of Virginia in 1687, with the arrival of an Anglican-ordained Huguenot minister from Cozes, France named John Bertrand. This Huguenot community, effectively hidden to researchers for more than 300 years, comes to life through the examination of county court records cross-referenced with French Protestant records in England and France. The 261 households and fifty-three indentured servants documented in this study, including a significant group from Bertrand’s hometown of Cozes, comprise a large Huguenot migration to English America and the only one to fully embrace Anglicanism from its inception. In July 1687 a French exile named Durand de Dauphiné published a tract at The Hague outlining the pattern and geography of this migration. The tract included a short list of inducements Virginia officials were offering to attract Huguenot settlers to Rappahannock County. These included access to French preaching by a Huguenot minister who would also serve an established Anglican parish, and the availability of inexpensive land. John Bertrand was the first of five French exile ministers performing this dual track ministry in the Rappahannock region between 1687 and 1767.

Sir Robert Bell and His Early Virginia Colony Descendants

Sir Robert Bell and His Early Virginia Colony Descendants
Author: James Elton Bell
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 1587367475

Robert Bell was born between 1520 and 1539 in England. He married three times and had twelve children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in England and Virginia.

Proud Early American Settlers

Proud Early American Settlers
Author: Marie Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1976
Genre: United States
ISBN:

John Akin was born about 1756, probably in South Carolina, and married Mary Watson (widow of Robert Howe). He fought in the Revolutionary war and moved to Maury Co., Tennessee where he was granted land in 1807. He died in 1821.